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jogl

Member

From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2016-02-27

Posts: 21

Auto Login

I am struggling to get autologin to work.

I have tried changing /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf as described in other posts here and in the lightdm wiki,

[Seat:*]
autologin-user=jp
autologin-user-timeout=0

Running Debian 10 with Xfce4, freshly installed from the Debian repo.

Thanks,
JP.

jogl

Member

From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2016-02-27

Posts: 21

Re: Auto Login

Well I finally stumbled my way through this.  I noticed that every change I made to the lightdm files had absolutely no effect.  So then I suspected that lightdm is not being used.  In fact GDM3  is being used.

So I changed /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf to

# Enabling automatic login
AutomaticLoginEnable = true
AutomaticLogin = jp

and bingo.

yangdw

Member

Registered: 2019-10-12

Posts: 8

Re: Auto Login

sudo groupadd autologin
sudo gpasswd -a jp autologin

klingkling

Member

From: UK, London

Registered: 2020-04-22

Posts: 7

Website

Re: Auto Login

had the same problem once.

An alternative to your solution, what's helped me once was creating a file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and adding the following content:

[SeatDefaults]
autologin-user=<YOUR USER>
autologin-user-timeout=0
user-session=ubuntu
# Uncomment the following, if running Unity
#greeter-session=unity-greeter

also thank you for reminding me of lightdm. I tend to forget about that thing -___-

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eriefisher

Member

From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 408

Re: Auto Login

You have both LightDM and GDM3 installed?

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